Kalo Hospitality

What Kalo Hospitality does

Kalo Hospitality is a Dubai-headquartered, privately held food services company founded in 2022 that delivers outsourced catering and hospitality solutions across six verticals: retail, education, corporate, healthcare, event catering, and energy sector. The company's core offering is contract-based managed catering services, including daily staff dining, executive boardroom catering, patient feeding, school meal programs, and remote-site catering for onshore and offshore energy operations (oil, gas, nuclear, renewable). It positions itself around multicultural menu capability to serve UAE workplaces that typically house 40-70 nationalities.

The company operates three product surfaces. The primary surface is the institutional catering business delivered through direct B2B sales. The second is Kalo Mezze, a retail sub-brand of frozen Arabic mezze products (kibbeh, sambousek, fatayer) distributed through Carrefour supermarkets across the UAE. The third is the Kalo Hospitality School App, a mobile application on iOS App Store and Google Play Store that enables parents to preorder school meals, monitor children's eating habits, and top up student IDs for cashless payment.

The revenue model combines managed-services contracts for B2B catering (corporate, healthcare, education, energy), professional-services pricing for event catering, and packaged-goods sales for the Kalo Mezze retail line. Distribution is direct sales to enterprise clients plus the Carrefour retail partnership and a self-serve mobile app for the education vertical. Marketing relies on Instagram, LinkedIn, the corporate website, podcast and video features, and industry event participation including COP28. The company is founder-led, with three co-founders (Roger Chammas as CEO, Nabil Ghobrial as Chief Growth Officer, and Dmitriy Ogai as CFO) bringing over 60 years of combined regional hospitality experience; no external funding rounds or institutional investors are disclosed.

Name

Kalo Hospitality

Legal name

Kalo Hospitality™

Website

https://kalohospitality.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kalo Hospitality is a Dubai-based, privately held food services company founded in 2022 that provides contract catering across corporate, healthcare, education, event, and energy sectors in the UAE, complemented by Kalo Mezze retail products in Carrefour and a school meal mobile app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Contract Catering Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231), Caterers (722320), Food Service Contractors (722310), Special Food Services (7223)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Services Administration (Meal Eligibility, POS, Nutrition Compliance) (EDAJAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Vending, Kiosk & À La Carte Food Programs (On-Campus Retail) (EDAEAEAI)

Keywords

• Contract catering services
• Institutional food services
• Corporate catering
• Remote site catering
• Multicultural workforce catering

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubayy

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Catering Services (B2B): Contract-based catering services for corporate offices, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and energy sector remote sites. Services include daily meal provision, coffee shop solutions, restaurant dining, and event catering. Revenue generated through long-term service contracts.
2. Corporate Catering: Daily catering services for corporate offices serving diverse multinational workforces (40-70 nationalities). Includes staff dining, executive boardroom catering, coffee breaks, and training session catering.
3. Healthcare Catering: Patient feeding services, restaurant dining for healthcare staff and visitors, coffee shop operations, and parcel delivery services for healthcare facilities. Focus on nutritious, dietary-specific meals.
4. Education Catering: Healthy school meal programs across nurseries, primary/secondary schools, and higher education institutions. Revenue from meal contracts with educational facilities.
5. Energy Sector Catering: Remote site catering for onshore and offshore energy operations including oil, gas, nuclear, and renewable energy facilities. Services include offshore dining facilities, rig catering, and logistical parcel delivery.
6. Event Catering: Customized catering for celebrations, private functions, corporate events, outdoor festivals, and private chef services with live cooking stations.
7. Retail Products (Kalo Mezze): Frozen Arabic mezze products (kibbeh, sambousek, fatayer) sold through Carrefour supermarket chain across UAE. Products freshly prepared, packed, and frozen for consumer home use.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Kalo Hospitality provides contract catering, institutional food services, and hospitality solutions to corporate offices, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, energy sector remote sites, and private events across the UAE. The company also sells a consumer retail line of frozen Arabic mezze (kibbeh, sambousek, fatayer) under the Kalo Mezze brand through Carrefour supermarkets, and operates a mobile app (Kalo Hospitality School App) for digital school meal management.

Product overview

Kalo Hospitality operates as a multi-sector hospitality platform offering premium catering, retail food products, and food services. The core offering includes six service verticals (Retail, Education, Healthcare, Corporate, Event Catering, and Energy Sector) delivered through a combination of on-site catering operations and consumer packaged goods. The product portfolio consists of the main Kalo Hospitality brand serving institutional clients, the Kalo Mezze sub-brand for retail frozen Arabic mezze products distributed through Carrefour, and the Kalo Hospitality School App for meal management in educational institutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kalo Mezze: Authentic frozen Arabic mezze brand offering kibbeh, sambousek, and fatayer, available in Carrefour supermarkets across the UAE.

Products and services

• Corporate Catering
• Education Catering (School Meal Programs)
• Healthcare Catering
• Energy Sector Catering
• Event Catering
• Kalo Mezze
• Kalo Hospitality School App

Quantifiable outcome

• Millions of safe meals served
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Carrefour SupermarketscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorStrategic retail distribution partnership for Kalo Mezze frozen Arabic mezze products (kibbeh, sambousek, fatayer). Products available in Carrefour supermarkets across UAE, making traditional Arabic appetizers accessible to consumers for home preparation.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Aramark: Global contract food, facilities and uniform services provider with significant energy-sector (remote/offshore) and education catering — directly comparable multi-vertical institutional catering strategy.
• Elior Group: International contract caterer serving corporate, education and healthcare markets with multicultural menu expertise — closely comparable B2B catering model across the verticals Kalo targets.
• Sodexo: Global food services and facilities management major with deep presence in UAE schools, corporate offices, healthcare and energy sites — competes for the same multi-vertical contract catering contracts as Kalo.
• ISS A/S: Global facility services company with significant food services offering for corporate, healthcare and education clients in the Middle East — comparable institutional catering model.
• Compass Group: World's largest contract food services and support services company, operating across corporate, healthcare, education, energy and remote-site catering globally including the UAE — directly comparable institutional catering model at much greater scale.

Direct peers

• Gulf Catering Company: UAE-headquartered contract caterer specializing in remote-site, offshore and onshore energy catering — most direct peer to Kalo's energy-sector vertical and a local market incumbent.
• National Catering Company (NCC): Major UAE-based contract caterer serving corporate, education and remote-site clients across the Emirates — competes with Kalo on the same institutional RFPs in the domestic market.
• Catermax: UAE contract catering company serving corporate, industrial, education and event clients — similar multi-sector B2B catering profile and regional scope to Kalo Hospitality.

Others

• Apparel Group (Catering Division): Large diversified UAE conglomerate with foodservice operations serving its retail, hospitality and corporate verticals — adjacent rather than direct, but operates overlapping catering capabilities within the UAE market.

Regional players

• Farnek Services LLC: UAE-based integrated facilities management provider that includes contract catering for corporate, hospitality and events — comparable vertical breadth and UAE geographic footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kalo-hospitality
• Instagraminstagram.com/kalo_hospitality

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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